The Labour party has been likened by one of its MPs to a story from Homer. Not the Greek chap with all those epithets, but the head of the Simpson family. Jamie Reed, a former shadow health minister who declared in his maiden speech that he was a Jedi, wrote for the Progress think tank that life under Jeremy Corbyn reminded him of the episode of The Simpsons where Homer tries to leap a gorge on a skateboard.
After losing momentum (subtle message there), Homer bounces off the jagged rocks to the bottom. Then, having been winched out by helicopter, is put in an ambulance, which hits a tree. Homer rolls out of the back on the trolley and falls into the canyon again. “That’s